Wow. So many words describe Tempted. Yes, it was emotional. Raw, real, powerful, intense. It was a roller coaster of a book.

James and Anne have a good marriage, a great sex life. They each have things that they have not shared with each other. Rather important things.

Alex is James’ best friend. The men have not seen each other in years. They had a huge fight one night and for years had no contact with each other. They re connected through email, and eventually, Alex planned a visit.

James had thought that a m/f/m menage was a fantasy for his wife, so with Alex, he made it happen. Things were fine until emotions came into play. Anne started to look at her husband differently, she grew suspicious of why James wanted this to happen. She developed feelings for Alex that she didn’t think he returned in the way she wanted them to. It was all a big mess.

I wont called Tempted a romance, but I will call it a love story. The book ends with Anne staying in a monogamous relationship with one of the men. I believe it was the right choice for her.

There is nothing bad I have to say about this book. Sure, there are things that some of the characters did that I didn’t like. I found Anne rather selfish to tell you the truth, but I think all the things that happened worked very well for the story. I may not have liked every ones actions or their reasons doing whatever it was that they did, but it worked. It made a very entertaining story that kept me flipping the pages as fast as I could. An A. No question about it, this is a book I will re read often.

The menage aspect wasn’t the only thing happening. Anne was having problems with her mother in law and that all came to blows at one point. She was also struggling with her parents and sisters due to things that happened in her childhood. Each of her 3 sisters had something going on that required Anne’s attention.

There was not a moment of boredom for me while reading Tempted. Even though there were a number of characters making appearances, the author made sure to keep Anne, James and Alex the focus of the story.

Definitely a keeper.

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Isabel and mighty Highland chief/warrior enter into a handfast (informal marriage) at the command from the king. A feud has been going on between their clans for two years, and this is a way to stop the blood shed, at least for a while.

Rory goes into the handfast with all intentions of having it last no longer than the 12 months they agreed upon. He also intends not to bed his lovely new bride.

Isabel is not excited about the handfast, but she is doing it for her family. She is supposed to make Rory fall in love with her so that he will tell her secrets, giving her clan the chance to defeat his.

Even though Isabel entered into the handfast with plans to betray him, she soon fell in love with him and his family. When she gets pressure from her uncle to betray Rory she has to decide between the man she loves and her family, who without her help will be left without protection and surely by a rival clan.

Highlander untamed is a B+ for me. It was almost an A but I noticed a few inconsistencies during the first few chapters. They were big enough to give me pause and check back a few pages, but not so big that it made a difference in the story, or even big enough for me to remember the particulars of them as I write this review.

Rory is an incredible hero. There is something about a mighty highlander falling in love that makes my knees weak. I also liked this book because it made me cry. There is a scene between Rory and Isabel that was so emotional that I had to wipe the tears from my cheeks. I felt for Isabel, I felt for Rory.

Fantastic start of a series. I can’t wait to read the next book.

Eve has been a cop for 10 years. She is on the case to find a killer who is murdering licensed companions. The killer uses a gun, weapons that have long since been outlawed, to shoot the prostitute in the head, chest and between her legs, after they have sex.

One of the suspects is Roarke. A very rich, very smug business man who quickly falls in love with Eve. After Eve rules him out as the killer, he helps her try to find the real murderer. They work rather well together.

Naked in death is a B+ from me. It didn’t take long to figure out that Naked in death was not your typical contemporary read. It’s actually set in the year of 2058. I was more interested in the world that the author created than I was in the actual love story. The story was fast paced and interesting. Even though I knew who the killer was all a long, it was still a good read.

I like Eve and Roarke. I like them together, but I felt that the relationship was forced. I do look forward to reading more about them in the rest of the series.

It starts off good enough. Alex is an ex-Miss USA who lives by herself in a cabin studying mountain lions. One afternoon she sees a man fall out of a very low flying plane, and like any normal person, she decides to save him. Tag wakes up tied to her bed in her little cabin and tries to get Alex to untie him, but she is smart and doesn’t trust him. She is right not to play right into his hands, because he is just using her to find something, and their ‘chance meeting’ with him being rescued by her was just a set up.

Alex’s cabin is soon set on fire, and since she pretty much lives out in the middle of nowhere, she has no choice but to set off with Tag and try to figure out what is going on.

As much as I liked the first book, All jacked up-(read my review of it here.) I did not care too much for this one. Half way through the book I started skimming the pages, and I only finished it because I can’t stand to have another DNF. I really don’t like those.

The dialogue started to drag, the inner turmoil got repetitive, and the plot was rather boring.

I’ll give Tag, your it a C-. The first half of the book was worthwhile, and Jackass, Alex’s horse was a hoot, but I’m afraid that this book lacked the snappy dialogue and excitement that was plentiful in All jacked up.

The hot parts were really hot, but the plot was unbelievable and kinda dumb. The Heroine ended up with the wrong guy, imo.

I have no idea why she fell in love with Deke. He was a total Asshat to her.

I’d love to read a story for Luc, but based on this book I am in no rush to read anything else by this author.

This is one of the books that I was looking forward to the most this year. Having loved the other books that JWH has written, I was sure that I woudl adore this one as well.

I did not. :(

It was just plain boring. I had to force myself to finish reading it. I’m really sad about this.

I was going to do a review on my bog, but I can’t bring myself to post a bad review for an author I like so much.

THis is as close as I’ll come to that.

I’m re reading this series. The men in Ready, Willing, And Able are sexy and incredibly sweet.

Lucy Monroe always writes the best Heroes.

Oh, my. Wow. I don’t even know what to say. Broken touched me on so many levels. I cried, not once, not twice, but three times. Real tears running down my cheeks. I had to get up and get a tissue and blow my nose. This is a deep book, and I can’t picture anyone not being effected by it.

Told in the first person, Sadie is a woman who meets Joe on a park bench on the first Friday of every month. Joe is a man on a mission. He sleeps with a lot of women looking for the right one. Each month he tells Sadie about one of the women he has been with, and each time, Sadie pretends that she is the woman in the story.

If you read the book description, it mentions that Sadie has a husband, so you are probably wondering why she is spending so much time with this other guy and pretending to sleep with him. The answer is that, Adam, her husband was in a skiing accident, and is paralyzed from the shoulders down. They have tried, but they can’t make love. For the last several years Sadie has not been held or touched. As humans, we need that. As a woman, Sadie needs that.

Joe and Sadie do not cross the line physically, but Sadie does in her mind. She struggles with behind faithful in the flesh, and cheating with her thoughts.

The scenes with Adam and Sadie had me enthralled. They fought, they made up, they talked, they made love as best they could. They hated each other, they loved each other. My emotions were twisted around right along with Sadie. I felt for her. Even though I didn’t get to peek into Adams mind, I felt for him, too.

I can’t say enough about this book. I called my aunt & my best and told them about it. I read several pages to my husband and even he wanted to hear more. My DH hates hearing about the books I read, so for him to want to read it means a heck of a lot.

Seriously, you need to read this.

It’s not often I give a book an A+, but this one did it!

At first glance, this seems like a light comical read. It is funny, but it has a few deep thinking moments.

Jillian and Marcus both work as bait in order to catch cheaters on tape. Jill and Marcus both come from broken homes that was caused by cheating. Jill’s mother took her husbands cheating very hard. She tried to kill herself over it, and a 7 year old Jill was the one to find her near death. Not only did she have to see her mother like that, but she also got to witness her dad cheating, because he would bring her to the girlfriends house so that she could play with the cat, while he got some ass in the bedroom.

Now an adult and working at Catch a Mate, Jill has turned into a man hater. She doesn’t trust them at all. When she meets Marcus she immediately falls in lust with him. Marcus has the hots for her as well, but he thinks women are as un trustworthy as Jill thinks men are.

Jill and Marcus get into many fights. There is a lot of back and forth bickering, and the more they argue, the more they turn each other on.

Marcus comes up with a plan..they become friends with benefits. They want each other, but they don’t want to risk getting into a relationship and then getting hurt. They trust each other not to sleep with anyone else as long as the two of them are ‘together’.

I enjoyed watching Jill and Marcus grow closer, and when revelations of love came out I let out a dreamy sigh. It was really very touching.

Besides the love story for the Hero/Heroine, there is also dealings with Jill’s parents, as well as Jill’s best friend and her brother. I liked the best friend/brother story line so much, that I almost wish they had their own story. Usually sub plots bore me, but not this one.

The type of woman that Jill grew into was caused by her parents. First her dad cheating, and then her mothers emotional breakdown that has lasted all these years. I was happy to see both those relationships get mended..or start to anyway. It will take a lot more than one meeting with her dad to fix that relationship, but Gena Showalters wrote it beautifully and it was believable.

Another thing that I greatly enjoyed was that each chapter started off with a pick up line. Some of them I have never heard before, and they had me LOL’ing.

If the story was for Butch/V rather than Butch/Marissa. I don’t believe the love story for B/M at all.